A material and manufacturing technique comparison regarding the flooring of a bus

Sammanfattning: Purpose of this Master’s thesis is to compare the use of two alternative materials in the building the flooring of a bus. Currently the floors of Carrus Delta buses are built using plywood. Carrus Delta Oy wants to investigate the use of ready-made glass fibre elements instead of plywood elements which are custom cut at their factory in Lieto, Finland. Glass fibre is also presented as potential material of light-weight vehicles by Fenton and Hodkinson (2001).